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...Haven, Conn., Benjamin Polaski, 28, fresh from a jail sentence for breaking into a woman's bedroom, broke into the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winchell (no kin to Columnist Winchell), slipped his shoes under one of the twin beds, slipped himself into the bed in which Mrs. Winchell was already sleeping, himself slipped off to sleep. Later Mrs. Wrinchell awoke, lit a match for a cigaret, saw Polaski, screamed. Next day Polaski was sentenced to 60 days, fined...
...candidacy immediately hit a snag. "Bang the trumpet and blow the drum," began a sarcastic attack in Sir Walter Layton's pro-New Deal Star. "For the first time in history, an American Presidential boom-or boomlet-has been started in London." In the U. S., Columnist Heywood Broun gave Candidate Gannett "Hindiana, Hiowa and Harkansas." In Manhattan, the Daily News chortled: "If Lord Beaverbrook has his way . . . and Roosevelt runs against him-boy, what a dish Gannett will...
...conservative New York Herald Tribune hired Miss Thompson to write a thrice-weekly column, she was known as: 1) an unusually alert foreign correspondent with vaguely radical leanings; 2) the wife of Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis. Guided by her most passionate emotion-a consuming hatred of Hitler-Columnist Thompson began writing with shrill assurance that startled readers. As insistent as a katydid, never at a loss for an answer, almost invariably incensed about something, her column has pleased a national appetite for being scolded. Today, her On the Record is printed in 155 newspapers with more than...
...Said Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt: "It must ... be pleasant to feel that in the future this place will be 'heaven' to some people, even if it cannot be to its former owner...
Information Please (Tues. 8:30 p.m., NBC-Blue). Critic Clifton Fadiman leads his corps of experts through radio's merry and most scholarly question-and-answer bee. The experts: Newspaper Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, Sportswriter John Kieran, Novelist Alice Duer Miller...